Preface.- Acknowledgements.- About My Teacher - Genrich S. Altshuller.- About the Author.- Recommendations.- CHAPTER 1: The Ideas of TRIZ.- CHAPTER 2: Laws of System Evolution and Development.- CHAPTER 3: Stages of System Evolution.- CHAPTER 4: Multi-screen Vision of System Evolution.- CHAPTER 5: Curves of System Generations and System Evolution.- CHAPTER 6: System Contradictions.- CHAPTER 7: Physical Contradictions.- CHAPTER 8: Software Contradictions.- CHAPTER 9: Resources and Parameters of Resources.- CHAPTER 10: Science for System Development and Evolution.- CHAPTER 11: Substance - Field Modeling and Analysis.- CHAPTER 12: System of Standard Solutions.- CHAPTER 13: The Method of Simulation by Little Manikins.- CHAPTER 14: The Algorithm for Inventive Problem Solving (ARIZ-85C).- CHAPTER 15: Creative imagination development.- CHAPTER 16: Creative Person Development.- CHAPTER 17: Technology for Innovation.- CHAPTER 18: Project Scenario.- CHAPTER 19: Root-Cause Analysis (Cause-and-Effect Model/Analysis).- CHAPTER 20: Value Methodology, Basics.- CHAPTER 21: Function Modeling & Analysis.- CHAPTER 22: Trimming Method - Design Simplification Strategy.- CHAPTER 23: Hybrid (Alternative) System Design.- CHAPTER 24: Concepts Evaluation and Selection.- CHAPTER 25: Hybrid Concept Design.- CHAPTER 26: Concepts Scenario.- CHAPTER 27: Capstone Project.- Glossary.- References.- Appendix 1 Altshuller System Contradictions Matrix.- Appendix 2 Software Contradictions Matrix.- Appendix 3 Curriculum for AP (advanced placement) Course "Technology for Innovation" for High Schools, Description and Outcomes (Level 1).- Appendix 4 Curriculum for Undergraduate Program "Technology for Innovation" for Universities, Description and Outcomes (Levels 1-2).- Appendix 5 Curriculum for Graduate Program "Technology for Innovation" for Universities, Description and Outcomes (Levels 1-3).- Appendix 6 "Technology for Innovation" Implementation Plan for Companies.- Appendix 7 Project: Wind Turbine.

About the Author: Isak Bukhman is TRIZ Master, President, and Consultant of TRIZ Solutions LLC (the USA), President of Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, senior consultant of Chongqing Innovation Method Society, honorary director of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Technological Innovation Methods and Tools, honorary member of Leibniz Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (LIFIS).As their chief methodologist, Isak spent ten years at Invention Machine Corporation (IMC). It helped him create unique skills using TRIZ combined with Goldfire software for new systems creation and existing system development and problem-solving. He now works as an independent consultant and is an owner of TRIZ Solutions, LLC.During recent years, Isak has been active delivering TRIZ training workshops and guiding the development of more than 100 innovation projects for more than 40 leading global Corporations, Institutes, and Universities including American Axle & Manufacturing (USA), BYD (P. R. of China), Bobcat (USA), Chery Automobile (P. R. of China), Delphi (USA), Eaton (USA), Johnson Controls (USA), Alcon (USA), Biomerieux (USA), DePuyOrthopaedics (Germany), Medtronic (USA), Baker Hughes (USA), Chemtura (USA), Masco-Behr (USA), Shell (USA, UK), Stress Engineering Services (USA), A.O. Smith (USA), BaoSteel (P. R. of China), Flowserve (USA), Savannah River Site (USA), POSCO (South Korea), Xinetics (USA), DSO National Laboratories (Singapore), General Dynamics Land Systems (USA), Asus (Taiwan), Compal Electronics (Taiwan), Clorox (USA), Corning (USA), Epistar (Taiwan), GAF (USA), Henkel (Germany), Huawei Technologies (P. R. of China), Intel (USA, Israel), Johnson & Johnson (USA, Brazil), Matter/Fisher-Price (USA), Microsoft (USA), NXP (Hong Kong), Samsung Electro-mechanics (South Korea), Philips (Netherlands), Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (P. R. of China), Whirlpool (USA), Siemens (Germany), GEGR-E (Germany), Southwest Research Institute (USA), Chung Hua University (Taiwan), Lunghwa University of Science and Technology (Taiwan), Mitsubishi Research Institute (Japan), Singapore Polytechnic-school of Mechanical & Engineering (Singapore), Tulane University (New Orleans, USA), Leibnitz Institute for Interdisciplinary studies (Germany), Holon Institute of Technology (Israel), Universidad Technologica Nacional (Argentina), Tsinghua University (P. R. of China), Hebei University of Technology (P. R of China)Isak's work has also included the delivery of many essential and advanced training seminars (some together with Genrich Altshuller), education and training of thousands of managers, engineers, and researchers in TRIZ/Value Methodology, and - closest to his heart - seven years of child and adolescent creativity (TRIZ) education in his native Latvia.